Writings of the Reverend and Learned John Wickliff, D.D
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Excerpt from Writings of the Reverend and Learned John Wickliff, D.D: Professor of Divinity in Oxford, and Rector of Lutterworth, in the Fourteenth Century The state of England during the latter part of the fourteenth century presents many causes for painful reflection. Luxury and pride characterised the higher classes, while the lower orders were involved in misery, and vice abounded among all ranks. Contemporary historians ascribe much of this dissoluteness of morals to the civil wars of preceding reigns, whereby the land was desolated, and the bonds of society relaxed. The internal peace of the country, it is true, had become more settled, but many causes united to prevent moral improvement. A long course of foreign victory inflated the national pride; the wealth accruing to individuals from successful warfare, with the habits acquired thereby, promoted luxury and dissipation among the higher ranks, farther stimulated by the introduction of new articles of expense through an increasing commerce. Meanwhile the people in general were exhausted by calls for pecuniary supplies and personal aid to carry on foreign hostilities; and the feuds and oppressions of powerful barons, with the constant plundering of bands of robbers which for many years had existed almost with impunity, caused much misery among the lower orders, whose sufferings led to the insurrections in the early part of the reign of Richard II. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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